INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS National BIM Standard-United States® Version 4

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS National BIM Standard-United States® Version 4

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National BIM Standard-United States®, or NBIMS-US™, is copyrighted 2007-2024, National Institute of Building Sciences, Washington, D.C., United States of America. The NBIMS-US™ is an industry consensus standard for the creation and use for building information management. The NBIMS-US™ is work created by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Building Information Management Council (BIMC) National BIM Standard Project Committee (NBIMS PC). NIBS owns the copyright in and to the NBIMS-US™. All rights are reserved.

NIBS’ objective is to make the NBIMS-US™ widely available and usable by everyone, subject to certain restrictions. NIBS hereby grants you, the “User”, a nonexclusive, worldwide, non-sublicensable, royalty-free license to reproduce, download, distribute to others, display to the public, and use the NBIMS-US™ in performing the type of work and creating the products for which the standard has been created, subject to the terms of this License Agreement. Any display or reproduction must include the name of NBIMS-US™ and attribution to NIBS as the copyright owner. You are not authorized by this license to sell or otherwise transfer copies of the NBIMS-US™ for commercial purposes, whether under the name of NIBS, your own name, or the name of any other person.

The User is not authorized to modify or create derivative works from the NBIMS-US™. The NBIMS-US™ is an industry consensus standard, therefore modification of or deviation from this standard is not authorized by this license. This restriction is necessary to maintain the identity and integrity of the standard. We have taken great care not to change any text from what was voted on and approved by the NBIMS-US™ Project Committee, except for editorial corrections and re-formatting done to make the entire document more usable. You do not have permission to indicate that you conform to this standard document, if you have changed any of the language to meet your own needs. Finally, the NBIMS-US™ may not be entered, input, or used to teach or train a machine learning or artificial intelligence tool or system.

Patents

The User may create products that implement or comply with the standard, subject to any applicable copyright and patent rights owned by third parties. The NBIMS-US™ cannot and does not authorize you to practice another person’s patent without permission of the patent holder. Where NIBS receives notice of the existence of a patent that is essential to implement of the NBIMS-US™ standard, NIBS will attempt to obtain written assurances from the patent holder that the patent holder will license use of the patent to applicants on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms. NIBS will provide notice to users where it has information concerning the existence of essential patents.

Trademarks

National BIM Standard-United States® is a registered trademark of the National Institute of Building Sciences. NBIMS-US™ is a trademark or service marks owned by NIBS. NIBS’ trademarks and service marks are used to identify this document as a product of NIBS. You may not use these marks except as expressly authorized here. You may use the mark National BIM Standard-United States® in conjunction with a product or service that you provide that implements or complies with the standard by using the following language: “This product complies with the National BIM Standard-United States®.” You may not use NIBS’ trade or service marks in any way that would tend to confuse or mislead the public to believe that your product or service is a product or service of NIBS or that NIBS has endorsed or confirmed any claim that a product or service complies with the National BIM Standard-United States.

 
 

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